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Shadows
In Oxford and Paris psychic investigators are attempting to probe forbidden areas of the mind. In New York, writer David Blake is studying the methods of miracle healer Jonathon Mathias. Driven by their own desperate motives, these researchers are about to unlock Pandora's Box.
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Trade Secret
Most of the lawyers Nason Nichols, P.I., knew had their offices in the basement of a courthouse; for Holtree's client, he quickly recalculated his daily rate. Zoltec Industries was the world's leading producer of high-powered microprocessor computer chips. A former employee, Dr. Bruce Platt, had stolen vital technological secrets which if sold to foreign competitors would mean disaster for Zoltec and for its founder, Armand Zoller. But the formidable Zoller has devised an ingenious scheme to safeguard his company and send the competition down the microchip path; Nichols, with the help of Zoltec's top scientist, Dr. Rachel Ornstein, is to provide the necessary discretion, ingenuity, and brawn. Rachel, Platt's spurned lover, is the kind of woman who deserves long looks and deeper thoughts: welcome distractions for Nichols, who has done without distaff companionship since his wife's departure on a self-empowered journey in search of her core. Traveling across New England's fall countryside in search of Platt, the Harvard-dropout sleuth and the sensuous physicist take a wrong turn into murder when Nichols discovers a shotgunned corpse in his quarry's New Hampshire cottage. Nichols, a suspect by default, needs answers fast. His Vietnam buddy and high-tech stock expert, Bucky Hanrahan, offers hot tips, brotherly concern, bawdy flights of prose and martini-sodden musings on the Celtic twilight; Zachariah Truscott, a suave blond Brahmin and Zoltec's B-school financial guru, pleads his fiscal case at the Union Boat Club; Butch Tenaki, Nichols's Harvard pal, provides the State Department's take on thugs hired by foreign companies; Dr. Winston Quarles, a disgruntled Zoltec scientist, reveals the damaging liaison he's formed and the painful reasons for it. In a whirlpool of greed and deception, misguided passion and a lethal interest in the status quo, Trade Secrets barrels towards its ingenious and surprising conclusion.
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Sudden Mischief
Susan Silverman's ex doesn't call himself "Silverman anymore -- he's changed his name to "Sterling". And that's not the only thing that's phony about him. A do-gooding charity fundraiser, he's been accused of sexual harassment by no less than four different women. And not long after Spenser starts investigating, Sterling is wanted for a bigger charge: murder...
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The Body Farm
New York Times bestselling author Patricia Cornwell brings back Kay Scarpetta, consulting forensic pathologist for the FBI's Behavioral Science Unit, in her grittiest and most compelling novel. In rural North Carolina, the brutal murder of eleven-year-old Emily Steiner has shaken a small town. But more disturbing are the details of the crimes, chillingly reminiscent of the handiwork of a serial killer who has eluded the unit for years. Into this volatile atmosphere comes Scarpetta's ingenious, rebellious niece Lucy, an FBI intern with a promising future in Quantico's computer engineering facility--until she is accused of a shocking security violation. While coming to terms with Lucy, Kay must conduct a grisly forensic investigation at a clandestine research facility in Tennessee known as the Body Farm. There she will find more answers to Emily Steiner's murder--and evidence that paints a picture of a crime more horrifying than she imagined . . .
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Princess
Because she is a woman, she is considered worthless -- a slave to the whims of her male masters. She has watched sisters, cousins and friends sold into marriage as young girls to men five times their age and brutally murdered for the slightest transgression, in accordance with cruel and ancient religious law. Now bestselling author Jean P. Sasson offers a shocking glimpse into a world of opulent splendor and horrific oppression -- and presents the real-life story of a courageous modern Saudi princess... who has risked her very life so that the truth may finally be told.
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Pleading Guilty
Gage & Griswell is a large law-firm with an even larger problem: $5.6 million has suddenly vanished from the coffers of its biggest client. And the finger of suspicion is pointing directly at G & G's maverick partner, Bert Kamin. He too has gone missing. Mack Malloy,fellow partner, ex-cop and struggling ex-drunk, is charged with finding both Bert and the money - quickly, discreetly and before questions are asked. But questions have already been asked: ones that lead Mack to a cold corpse, to Latin American bank accounts, to a tale of love, corruption and sexual ambivalence, and to Mack's own complex past. 'Worthy to be ranked with Dashiell Hammett or Raymond Chandler' - John Mortimer, The New York Times Book Review. 'Extravagant with danger, sex and especially money - and full of surprises to the end' - Independent on Sunday.
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Flight 741
Departs Munich for New York. It will never arrive. Beneath the Scorching Mideast sun, a nightmare begins to come true as Flight 741 sits like a silver coffin at Beirut international Airport. U.S. foreign policy is on the line, and in the balance are the lives of more than four hundred passangers. One of them is special, very special....
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Up
The evidence against him is overwhelming. The prison term he's facing will last the rest of his life. And inside a country built on secrecy, Charles Black, former Chairman of the U.S. Federal Reserve, has only one choice. He's about to go on the run: running for his freedom, and for the truth. Accused of almost half a billion dollars' worth of fraud, Charles Black knows he's innocent--but doesn't know that he's been made a pawn in the ultimate set-up...From the hushed halls of the most secretive institutions in the world--Swiss Banks--to the high-risk derivatives market, from the emerald coast of Sardinia to the Alaska wilderness, one man is fighting a labyrinth of danger, money, and power--and against one, unseen enemy who has been pulling all the strings.
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Another Man's Son
Especially promises from the people who were supposed to love him. People like his father. . . Ian Collier abandoned him when he was four, and Sam was a drifter for years afterward. He's finally begun to make peace with his past--and that's when he learns the shocking news. Ian Collier is dead.He returns to Ian's house in Seattle and finds a woman named Kathleen Cahill living there, the woman Ian had planned to marry. Within weeks Sam has fallen in love with her. Deeply in love--for the first time in his life. And then Kathleen tells him she's pregnant. With his baby? Or Ian Collier's?Now, thanks to Kathleen, he learns a secret about his father. A secret and a truth. And now--for the first time in his life--Sam Collier understands what fatherhood really means.
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Magician
To celebrate the tenth anniversary of the first publication of his classic fantasy novel Magician, Raymond E. Feist has prepared a new, revised edition, to incorporate over 15,000 words of text omitted from previous editions so that, in his own words, it is essentially the book I would have written had I the skills I possess today.' At Crydee, a frontier outpost in the tranquil Kingdom of the Isles, an orphan boy, Pug, is apprenticed to a master magician - and the destinies of two worlds are changed forever. Suddenly the peace of the Kingdom is destroyed as mysterious alien invaders swarm through the land. Pug is swept up into the conflict but for him anhd his warrior friend, Tomas, an odyssey into the unknown has only just begun. Tomas will inherit a legacy of savage power from an ancient civilisation. Pug's destiny is to lead him through a rift in the fabric of space and time to the mastery of the unimaginable powers of a strange new magic...
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London
In the tradition of his phenomenal bestseller Sarum, Edward Rutherfurd now gives us a sweeping novel of London, a glorious pageant spanning two thousand years. He brings this vibrant city's long and noble history alive through the ever-shifting fortunes, fates, and intrigues of half-a-dozen families, from the age of Julius Caesar to the twentieth century. Generation after generation, these families embody the passion, struggle, wealth, and verve of the greatest city in the world. . . .
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Black Heart
The sudden death of a major presidential contender in the arms of his beautiful mistress sends his best friend, Tracy Richter, on an epic journey of violence back into the heart of the Cambodian jungle and into a desperate web of intrigue in which every action masks a hidden motive. Featuring the deadliest killer since THE NINJA, and an exotic Oriental enchantress, BLACK HEART is an extraordinary adventure into the arts of violence and love.
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The King Of Dreams
At last Prestimion prepares to take his place in the subterranean Labyrinth where the Pontifex must dwell. He has named Prince Dekkeret to succeed him as Coronal. Once a commoner, Dekkeret brings new blood to the aristocratic Starburst Throne, and a popular wisdom. Another prosperous joint reign should begin. But the diabolical Mandralisca is the eminence grise behind a declaration of independence from distant Zimroel. Coolly proclaiming the five debauched nephews of the treacherous Dantirya Sambail to be the Five Lords of Zimroel, Mandralisca is preparing to destroy the unity and peace of Majipoor. The soothsayer Su-Suheris predicts that a new power is loose in the world, a power equal to any other, but Dekkeret has no faith in omens. Only when Mandralisca avails himself of a sinister device that destroys the mind of Dekkeret's own High Counsellor does the new Coronal begin to see a threat. But without THE KING OF DREAMS, how can he combat the sinister power emanating from Zimroel?